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Delhivery plans to hire over 75,000 employees to expedite parcel sortation

Logistics firm Delhivery on Friday announced its plans to hire over 75,000 staff for seasonal jobs over the next one-and-a-half month and expand its parcel sortation capacity by 1.5 million shipments per day. Of these, over 10,000 people will be off-roll employees across Delhivery's gateways, warehouses, and last-mile delivery, the company said. The hiring is aimed at meeting the expected higher volumes in both parcels and express part-truck load business during the festive season, it added. The company's fully-automated mega gateway, which is equipped with the automated parcel and hub sortation at Tauru became operational in April this year. The company said it will also double down on its various partner programmes by onboarding individual bikers, local retailers, business partners and transporters with plans to roll out a revenue payout of Rs 150-crore across all programmes. Delhivery said it will hire 50,000 last-mile agents under its Last-Mile Agent programme alone, which off

Dunzo Daily to increase delivery time and reduce distance: Report

Company backed by Reliance Retail won't expand to new cities after burning more than Rs 100 cr in the last quarter

Meta partners with DoorDash to deliver Marketplace items in the US

Meta has partnered with online delivery platform DoorDash to deliver Marketplace items located up to 15 miles (nearly 25 km) away in the US

Women kirana partners lead deliveries for Flipkart in India's remote areas

The programme enables the kirana partners to make limited time-based deliveries contingent on their comfort and availability and has enabled large-scale participation from women

Logistics firm Delhivery to provide same-day delivery in 15 cities

Service will improve consumer experience and reduce return rates, says company that recently launched an IPO

Liquor firms ask Maharashtra govt to allow home delivery, drop ban

Maharashtra allowed home delivery of liquor during the coronavirus pandemic under the Disaster Management Act, 2005. It withdrew the permission from June 3

Swiggy plan offers unlimited free deliveries from restaurants 10 km away

Membership programme has exclusive offers on 1,000 products in Instamart, the company's daily essentials service.

Myntra starts under 48-hour delivery for fashion and beauty products

The 'M-Express' service will work in more than 1,300 pin codes and earn customer loyalty, says the company.

Grocery delivery firm Instacart marches to IPO despite stock market turmoil

The company has confidentially filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission to start the process for a stock market listing

Swiggy scales down Supr Daily, temporarily suspends Swiggy Genie

The company in a blog stated that its restructuring Supr Daily and the services will be suspended in five cities, it also said that Swiggy Genie will be temporarily suspended in 3 cities.

Navankur Infranergy starts mobile fuel station for doorstep diesel delivery

'Booster Diesel' will meet the demand for diesel by various end-users at their doorstep, according to a release

Zepto starts 10-min pilot for snack delivery in Mumbai, won't send food

CEO Aadit Palicha says delivery partners won't be at risk and will travel short distances.

JioMart Express pilot to start this week as quick deliveries demand rises

The pilot is expected to begin with select numbers in Navi Mumbai and will eventually be rolled out in phases to include the rest of Mumbai and another one or two cities in the next one to two months.

PM Fasal Beema Yojana to launch a doorstep distribution drive

The Centre is set to launch a doorstep distribution drive for the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Beema Yojana (PMFBY) that entered its seventh year on Friday.

Quick deliveries a priority for only 8% of online grocery buyers: Survey

According to the survey, one in 10 households buying groceries online is placing over 10 orders a month via quick commerce apps

Dunzo pulls out all stops to be No.1 in quick commerce; bets on automation

Automation, Reliance deal to help it expand faster

Delivery race among Indian grocery startups brings road safety risks

Competition is already intense in India's $600-billion grocery retailing industry, populated by the likes of Amazon, Walmart's Flipkart and Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance

DPIIT restarts control room to monitor delivery of essential goods

The facility had been set up last April amid second wave; DPIIT had also ironed out difficulties being faced by various stakeholders due to regional lockdown and curfew imposed by various states, UTs

Questions still on how far labour codes will change gig workers' lot

As of now, regardless of distance, weather conditions or traffic, every delivery must be completed within 45 minutes or the delivery person gets a rating downgrade

Zypp Electric expects five-fold jump in turnover to Rs 25 crore

Launched in 2017, the Gurugram-based start-up earlier in September this year raised USD 7 million in Series-A funding round